Famous quotes containing the word streets:
“On the day that will always belong to you,
lunar clockwork had faltered
and I was certain. Walking
the streets of Manhattan I thought:
Remember this day. I felt already
like an urn, filling with wine.”
—Rita Dove (b. 1952)
“I took a good deal o pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for his-self. Its the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The Everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.”
—Phillips Brooks (18351893)
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